You can receive credits on stormwater utility fees in Kitchener and Waterloo.

Start by knowing your property

We advise you to start by understanding where rain water flows on your property. Identify problem spots, such as ground that slopes towards your home, and look for opportunities to direct water to where your property can absorb it.

RAIN Home Visits

Reep Green Solutions offersRAIN Home Visits that gives you a comprehensive review of your property.

RAIN Coach Consultations

Our RAIN Coach is initially concentrating efforts in the two RAIN Smart neighbourhoods in Kitchener as part of a strategy to motivate community action to achieve stormwater abatement. The goal is to deliver 100 coach consultations between the spring of 2017 and the fall of 2018.

Ideas to SOAK it Up

Add a rain garden to your yard

Beautify your home with a rain garden! These specially designed gardens use a mix of sand, compost and soil to absorb water directed from your home’s downspouts and slowly release it into the ground.

Put in a soakaway (also known as an infiltration gallery)

Soakaways are small underground reservoirs that collect rain from your downspout and allow it to infiltrate into the ground.

Or you might choose a trench featuring a perforated pipe or a pit lined with landscape fabric and filled with stones or specially designed plastic crates.

Choose permeable pavers for your driveway or patio

This alternative to asphalt, concrete or traditional interlocking brick driveways and patios allows water to seep between the pavers into a stone reservoir below that allows it to slowly percolate into the ground.